"I heard that you are going to grab the position from my brother." Rong Yueshan was dressed in a bright red women's outfit, looking up at Yun Moxiao who was riding a horse and was more than a head taller than her.
"There is nothing to grab or not." Yun Moxiao said lightly: "The capable ones live."
After hearing Yun Moxiao's words, Rong Yueshan sneered and said in a provocative tone: "You'd better be careful."
After finishing speaking, she rode sideways, and the team behind her immediately followed up and walked past Yun Ruoyan and the others.
Yi Qianying looked at Yun Ruoyan coldly the whole time, and Yun Ruoyan stared at her without giving in, until Yi Qianying turned her head away.
There are many ways to go to the Kongming Mountain Range and enter the Kongming Peak. Yi Qianying and Rong Yueshan took the main road, and Yun Ruoyan and others took the small road.
The four of Yun Ruoyan rode on the road, threw off their whips and ran all the way, arriving at the foot of the Kongming Mountain Range at ten o'clock in the afternoon.
Even though it was a small road, they met two groups of students who came from all over the Shen Yuan Continent along the way. Because they were destined to be opponents, everyone did not communicate much, and went their own way.
When night fell, several people had already entered the interior of the Kongming Mountain Range. According to this speed, they would probably be able to reach the Kongming Peak by this time tomorrow.
The last time when Li Mo Yujian took Yun Ruoyan to Kongming Peak, the journey took less than an hour, and Yun Ruoyan couldn't help feeling how convenient it was to have an Excalibur.
After eating some dry food and Zhuo Yifeng's roasted pheasant, they began to rest and maintain their strength for the next day's journey.
Because of the day's journey, everyone was very tired, and soon fell asleep.
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Jiujiu suddenly started shouting in Yun Ruoyan's mind.
"Master, master wake up!"
Yun Ruoyan woke up from her sleep. She was quite anxious when she heard Jiujiu's tone, so she asked, "Jiujiu, what happened?"
"There's a strong aura around here, it's disappearing and appearing now and then, I don't know what to do, master, you have to be careful." Jiujiu replied.
Yun Ruoyan woke up completely, she didn't startle the people next to her immediately, but calmly felt the atmosphere around her.
If you really encounter a particularly powerful opponent, you can't act rashly.
The strange thing is that Yun Ruoyan didn't feel the stronger aura that Jiujiu said, she only felt a few weaker auras, and her cultivation should not exceed the fourth level of Sword Master.
"Master, that powerful aura has disappeared again. I don't know what happened, but there are still a few smaller auras left." Jiujiu said again at this time.
"Did you leave?" Yun Ruoyan guessed.
"It's also possible that the breath is hidden." Jiujiu said.
At this moment, the four mutant horses tethered not far away suddenly made an uneasy sound, and Yun Moxiao and Zhuo Yifeng were awakened.
"No, it's a horse thief!" Yun Moxiao immediately jumped up and ran towards the place where the horse was tethered, Zhuo Yifeng also followed.
The neighing of the horse woke up Lin Qingxue and Lin Qingchen, followed by the sound of fighting.
"What's the matter, sister Ruoyan?" Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue looked at Yun Ruoyan and asked suspiciously.
"Maybe it's a horse thief, I'll go and have a look." Yun Ruoyan said as she got up and walked towards the direction where the fighting sound came from.
If it's just a few horse thieves, Yun Moxiao and Zhuo Yifeng can deal with it enough, if not, they have to be more careful.
So Yun Ruoyan didn't hurry over there, but walked there step by step with caution, and asked as she walked, "Brother, what's the situation?"
"It's a few horse thieves." Yun Moxiao replied, he and Zhuo Yifeng both held lighting equipment made of magic beast inner alchemy, under the white light, Yun Ruoyan saw three quilters squatting on the ground. The person subdued by Mo Xiao and Zhuo Yifeng.
Each of the fireworks mutant horses sold for thousands of gold coins, which was very valuable.
Now is the day when the students of Kongming Academy rush to the academy, and a large part of them are from big families, so there will be many precious mutant horses, so it is not uncommon to encounter horse thieves at night.
"Forgive me, we are just a few ordinary thieves, and we don't have any intention of harming anyone just to steal horses for some money." One of the men in his thirties begged for mercy.
Yun Ruoyan saw that they were all dressed in linen clothes and untouchable attire, and judging from their aura, they were all only around the fourth-level sword master. Generally, those in their thirties who only have a fourth-level sword master cultivation base can only be regarded as extremely ordinary existences among cultivators.
On the Shenyuan Continent, the general guards or yamen servants are above the fifth-level swordsman, and the fourth-level swordsman is only better than ordinary people. If they don't have special means of making a living, they can only do coolies.
But there are many who are unwilling to work hard and become thieves and robbers. These few people must be such people.
This type of people is the most annoying. If ordinary people without cultivation base meet them, they will be very miserable. If they are caught by experts like today, they will often be killed directly.
After the first person begged for mercy, the other two also began to beg for mercy, and the old and the young talked a lot.
"Get out!" Yun Moxiao yelled at the three of them, "Don't let me see you again!"
Zhuo Yifeng also took the bowstring from one of them's neck.
The three staggered and fled.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual about the horse, several people continued to rest, but Yun Ruoyan was still a little strange.
Early in the morning of the second day, when they got up, they realized something was wrong. All of their fireworks mutants were dead.
Several people squatted down to check the horses, and found that the four fireworks horses had bleeding gums, their eyes were wide open, and their eyeballs were turning blue. They seemed to have been poisoned to death by some kind of strange poison.
"Damn it!" Zhuo Yifeng couldn't help cursing, "Those three horse thieves must have done it last night."
Everyone thought that the three people just wanted to steal the horse, but they didn't expect that they didn't want to steal the horse but wanted to poison the horse to death.
"Are those horse thieves sick?" Lin Qingxue wondered: "Stealing horses can be sold for money, so what good will it do them if they are poisoned to death? It really hurts others and does not benefit themselves."
Yun Ruoyan thought for a while and said, "Maybe they just want to do something that harms others and does not benefit themselves."
"Sister Ruoyan, what do you mean?" Lin Qingchen asked.
"This poison is quite strange, unlike ordinary horse thieves. If my guess is correct, someone bribed them to poison our mounts so that we could not rush to the Kongming Academy in time."
Yun Ruoyan folded her arms around her chest. She related the situation last night and deduced: "The deadline for the trial at Kongming Academy is at noon the day after tomorrow. If you miss that time, you will be disqualified. This is because some people don't want us to enter Kongming Academy. .”
Several people have always thought that there will be various difficulties and dangers after entering the trial ground, but they never thought that they would be counted against before they even arrived at Kongming Academy.
"I'm to blame for this, I was actually deceived by those three rats." Yun Moxiao said rather annoyed.
"Brother, I can't blame you for this." Yun Ruoyan said: "When we found those three people, the horse was probably poisoned. Even if we killed those three people, we couldn't escape the current result."
Except for Lin Qingxue, the few people present were more cautious, but this matter was too unpredictable.
"Then what should we do now?" Lin Qingxue asked with a wrinkled face. Without a mount, even if she kept on going without sleeping at night, she might not be able to arrive the day after tomorrow.
Yunmo Xiao Yujian could only take one person with him, and if there was no other way in the end, he could only guarantee that Yun Ruoyan would be delivered on time, but before the last moment, Yunmoxiao and Yun Ruoyan did not want to give up on anyone.
In the end, several people decided to speed up and hurry.
As they were on their way, they encountered a team that came from behind.
Someone in the team gloated after seeing them and said that this was the third team they met along the way that lost their mounts.
After hearing this, Yun Ruoyan went up to inquire, and the answer she got was that the mounts of the three teams were also poisoned to death just like them, and some of them had already given up and started to return home.
Yun Ruoyan originally thought that this was an act aimed specifically at them, but now it seems that it is not. According to the analysis of this situation, it should be that some students took such an action in order to reduce competitors.
And such a big move must not be done by ordinary students, maybe it is the behavior of a certain family, it seems that the battle has already begun!
Yun Ruoyan looked at the team in front. The eight people were wearing Shen Guo's costumes. Shen Guo was located on a plain near the sea. They must have never seen such a mountain and forest scene, so they were still admiring the scenery while walking.
Because there was enough time, and the teams without mounts they met along the way, they relaxed their mood and walked leisurely.
An idea came to Yun Ruoyan's mind, she glanced at Yun Moxiao, and found that Yun Moxiao was also looking at her, the siblings nodded at each other, with the same concern in their hearts.
The team in front has about seven or eight people and eight fireworks horses. If we can spare four horses for them, the problem will be solved.
It's just that those eight people obviously wouldn't do this, and no one would find an opponent for themselves if they had nothing to do, Yun Ruoyan and the others were in a situation they were willing to see.
Yun Ruoyan and the others followed that team unhurriedly, but they soon caught their guard.
"Brother, will the people behind us snatch our mounts?" A rather rough-looking boy asked the leader of the team.
This boss is a handsome boy, younger than Yun Moxiao, older than Yun Ruoyan, and about the same age as Zhuo Yifeng.
"It's very possible if you are forced to rush." The boss said: "It seems that they have a high level of cultivation and we are not opponents. Speed up and get rid of them."
The eight people threw off their horsewhips and stopped admiring the scenery, but ran away all the way.
In less than an hour on the winding Yougu mountain road, the eight-member team had thrown Yun Ruoyan and the others out of sight.
After getting rid of Yun Ruoyan and the others, the eight of them slowed down again, and when it was just getting dark, the eight of them camped to rest.
After eating and drinking enough, the eight of them were talking about the upcoming beautiful life at Kongming Academy, while humming Shen Guo's songs, they gradually fell asleep.
Time passed slowly, the bonfire gradually went out, and the camp snored everywhere.
Yun Ruoyan, Yun Moxiao, and Zhuo Yifeng restrained their breath and quietly hid in the bushes next to the camp.
Yun Ruoyan couldn't help sighing, "These eight people are really big-hearted. It doesn't matter if there are no ones staying at night, but they still sleep so deeply. The cultivation base itself is not high, aren't they here to die!"
Of course Yun Ruoyan and the others couldn't kill and steal horses, but they could wait for the three horse thieves to arrive, and then catch them when they poisoned them!